Device for extracting a straw from a container

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a device ( 30 ) for extracting a straw ( 100 ) from a container ( 1 ) closed by a lid ( 3 ) and presenting an orifice ( 17 ). The device ( 30 ) comprises: a stopper ( 37 ) suitable for being attached to and detached from the lid ( 3 ) in order to close and open the orifice ( 17 ); and a body ( 31 ) connected to the stopper ( 37 ) and suitable for being inserted inside the container ( 1 ) through the orifice ( 17 ), and including: an abutment ( 35 ) on which a corrugated portion ( 105 ) of the straw ( 100 ) is suitable for resting when the stopper ( 37 ) is attached to the orifice ( 17 ), and which is suitable for entraining said corrugated portion ( 105 ) while the stopper ( 37 ) is being detached in order to extract the straw ( 100 ) from the container ( 1 ) through the orifice ( 17 ); and at least one opening ( 34 ) through which the straw ( 100 ) can be disengaged from the device ( 30 ) when the stopper ( 37 ) is detached from the lid ( 3 ).

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present description relates to a device for extracting a straw froma container closed by a crimped lid, e.g. a container of the beveragecan type, and it also relates to such a container provided with such adevice, and to a method of fabricating such a container.

STATE OF THE PRIOR ART

In known manner, a beverage can has a rim that is closed by a lidcrimped on said rim; an opening zone formed in said lid; and a push ringthat a consumer actuates in order to pop out the opening zone so as tobe able to drink the beverage contained in the can through the opening.

Such cans present the advantage of being suitable for mass production invery large numbers and at very low cost. Nevertheless, they are not verysatisfactory in terms of hygiene and safety for the consumer.

Specifically, cans are handled on several occasions and stored inlocations of all kinds for a longer or shorter length of time betweenleaving a factory and being consumed. This can lead to a wide variety ofbacteriological agents accumulating on the top of a can, and then cominginto contact with a consumer's mouth when the consumer is drinking thebeverage. This leads to a genuine risk of bacteriological or viraltransmission for the user, and to make matters worse, the user oftentakes very little precaution concerning clean hands while handling thecan.

Furthermore, cans often contain sugary beverages such that in hot orhumid weather, once they have been opened, they can attract mosquitoes,flies, bees, wasps, etc. If the consumer does not pay attention, bees orwasps can thus get into an open can and can subsequently sting the userdangerously inside the mouth, thereby leading to severe incidents suchas Quincke's edema.

There also exist cans provided with straws, that may be housed inside oroutside the cans, and although such straws do indeed enable user hygieneconditions to be improved, they nevertheless require substantialmodification to the method of fabricating the can, to the detriment ofits cost, while still not solving the above-mentioned safety problem.

There exists a need to develop a container that is closed by a crimpedlid and that presents good conditions of hygiene and of safety for theconsumer, while nevertheless remaining simple in order to keep controlover the cost of fabricating such a container.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A first aspect of the present description provides a device forextracting a straw from a container having a rim that is closed by a lidcrimped to said rim and presenting an orifice. The device comprises:

a stopper suitable for being attached to and detached from the lid inorder to close and open the orifice; and

a body connected to the stopper and suitable for passing through theorifice in order to be housed inside the container, and including:

-   -   an abutment on which a corrugated portion of the straw is        suitable for resting when the stopper is attached to the lid,        and which is suitable for entraining said corrugated portion        while the stopper is being detached in order to extract the        straw from the container through the orifice; and    -   at least one opening through which the straw can be disengaged        from the device when the stopper is detached from the lid.

Thus, a straw is incorporated inside the container and is suitable forbeing extracted therefrom through an orifice made in the lid of thecontainer. To do this, it suffices to detach the stopper so as to openthe orifice, and to entrain the straw out from the container by means ofthe abutment that is secured to the stopper that co-operates with thecorrugated portion of the straw during detachment. Once an end of thestraw is outside the container, it suffices to separate that end fromthe extractor device so that the consumer can put it in the mouth andsuck up the beverage contained in the container. Under suchcircumstances, the consumer's mouth comes into contact with the strawand not with the top of the container with the bacteriological agents ithas picked up, thereby significantly improving hygiene and reducing anyrisk of bacteriological or viral transmission.

In addition, if the consumer does not desire to drink all of its contentimmediately, the container may be reclosed by closing the orifice oncemore with the stopper. Under such circumstances, bees, wasps, etc.cannot penetrate into the container while it is reclosed in this way, sothe safety of the user is substantially improved.

In addition, incorporating the straw and its extractor device in aconventional container requires only minor modification to thecontainer, which can be summarized as merely piercing the lid, since allof the other characteristics of the container can remain identical tothose that are conventional for the container. This piercing step iseasily incorporated in a conventional method of fabricating a container,so it is possible to keep control over the overall cost of fabrication.

In certain embodiments, the stopper and at least a portion of the bodymay be formed as a single piece, in particular by any method of workingthermoformable materials, e.g. by molding, in particular by injectionmolding, or by any other method adapted to working the other materialunder consideration, or each of them. Fabrication, and in particularensuring that the stopper and the body are secured to each other, canthus be made easier. In addition, unwanted separation between thestopper and the body can thus be prevented, at least under normalconditions of use, thereby reducing any risk of the body dropping to thebottom of the container while the stopper is being handled.

In certain embodiments, and for analogous reasons, the body may beintegrally formed as a single piece, e.g. using any of theabove-mentioned methods.

In certain embodiments, the device is made integrally as a single piece,e.g. by any of the above-mentioned methods.

In certain embodiments, the body may have a tube portion inside which atleast a fraction of the straw is suitable for being received when thestopper is attached to the lid.

This solution enables a shape to be used that is simultaneously easy tomake, e.g. by any of the above-mentioned methods, and easy to passthrough the orifice in the lid during fabrication of the container, andalso during the operation of extracting the straw by detaching thestopper.

In certain embodiments, the tube portion may present a constriction ofits inside diameter, thereby defining the abutment. In particular, thetube portion may present a bore with at least a fraction of the strawbeing suitable for being housed therein. In addition, the bore may havea shoulder having the effects of locally reducing the inside diameter ofthe bore and of defining the abutment.

In certain embodiments, the shoulder may present a chamfer or a roundedshape so as to facilitate passing the straw through the shoulder and soas to avoid any sharp edge coming into contact with the corrugatedportion of the straw.

In certain embodiments, the tube portion may present a side wall inwhich said at least one opening is formed. The straw can then beseparated by curving its corrugated portion and/or, where appropriate,by turning a flexible portion of the body, so as to enable theaccessible end of the straw to project out through the opening.

In certain embodiments, at least a portion of the stopper may present anaxis of symmetry of revolution, in particular when provision is made toform an orifice of circular section in the lid.

In certain embodiments, the axis of the tube portion may coincide withthe axis of symmetry of revolution of said at least one portion of thestopper.

In certain embodiments, the body may include a resilient portionsuitable for contracting elastically while the body is being insertedinto the container through the orifice, and for expanding againelastically after said insertion in order to provide an abutment effectthat opposes separation of the body and of the container when thestopper is detached. Thus, under normal conditions of use, the body andthe stopper can remain permanently connected with the container evenwhen they have been detached therefrom, thus ensuring that they are notlost, so that it is possible to reclose the orifice, should that benecessary, and avoiding the body and the stopper being discarded in aninappropriate location, or indeed preventing them from being ingested bya very young user.

In certain embodiments, the stopper may have a tongue that can behandled from the outside of the lid, so as to make it easier to detachthe stopper from the lid.

In certain embodiments, the device may include a seal portion that isattached to the stopper on the outside of the lid, and that is suitablefor being separated from the stopper in order to enable said stopper tobe detached. Such a seal or tamperproofing element can serve to assure auser that a container has never been opened beforehand. Specifically,such a seal portion, which is initially attached to the stopper when thestopper is itself attached to the lid, must be removed prior to beingable to detach the stopper from the lid on the first occasion.

In certain embodiments, the seal portion and the stopper may be attachedto each other via breakable bridges, so as to provide a non-permanentconnection between the seal portion and the stopper, which connection iseasily breakable in order to separate them from each other.

In certain embodiments, the seal portion may include a tongue that canbe handled from the outside of the lid, so as to make to easier toseparate the seal portion from the stopper.

In certain embodiments, the stopper may have a flared portion, e.g. afrustoconical portion, that becomes larger on going away from the body.This makes it easier to insert the stopper in the orifice, while stillproviding a clamping force that is sufficient to avoid unwanteddetachment of the stopper from the lid.

In certain embodiments, the stopper may include a notch, e.g. a groove,suitable for co-operating with the edge of the orifice when the stopperis attached to the lid, likewise so as to improve the clamping force.

In certain embodiments, when the lid includes a push ring for poppingout an opening zone provided in said lid, the device may be suitable forbeing received at least in part on the outside of the lid under the pushring. Normal operation of the container can thus be conserved withoutbeing disturbed by the presence of the device incorporated with thecontainer.

A second aspect of the present description relates to a containerincluding a rim closed by a lid crimped onto said rim and presenting anorifice; a straw housed inside the container; and a device according tothe above-specified first aspect, configured to extract said straw fromthe container through said orifice.

In certain embodiments, the container may be of the metal beverage cantype.

In certain embodiments, the orifice may present a section that iscircular.

A third aspect of the present description relates to a method offabricating a container, the method comprising:

a fabrication step for fabricating the lid, during which an orifice ispierced in the lid;

an incorporation step for incorporating a straw and a device accordingto the above-specified first aspect with the lid, during which step thebody and the straw are passed through the orifice, and the stopper issubsequently attached to the lid in order to close the orifice; and

a crimping step for crimping the lid on a rim of the container in orderto close said rim, which step may be performed before or after theincorporation step.

The above-mentioned characteristics and advantages, and others, appearbetter on reading the following detailed description of embodiments thathave no limiting character and that are proposed merely by way ofillustration. The detailed description makes reference to theaccompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings are diagrammatic and not to scale, seekingabove all to illustrate the principles mentioned in the presentdescription. In the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a container in accordance with thepresent description, before it has ever been opened by a consumer;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the container;

FIG. 3 is a section view of the container on plane A-A shown in FIG. 2,with two details on a larger scale showing the extractor deviceintegrated in the container;

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the container, showing afirst step in the process of extracting the straw, during which the pushring is pivoted to access the seal fraction of the straw extractordevice;

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the container showing asecond step in the extraction process, during which the seal portion isseparated from the stopper in order to detach the stopper;

FIG. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of the container showing athird step in the extraction process, during which the stopper isdetached from the lid so as to enable the device and the straw to beextracted from the body, with the straw then being separated from thestopper;

FIG. 7 is a section view of the container on plane A-A shown in FIG. 2,showing the device and the straw during the third step of the extractionprocess, as shown in FIG. 6; and

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the container prior to incorporating thestraw and the extractor device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

FIGS. 1 to 3 show a container 1 in accordance with the presentdescription before it has ever been opened by a consumer.

In this embodiment, the container 1 is of the metal beverage can type.As is conventional, the container 1 comprises a lid 3 crimped onto a rimof the container 1 in order to close said rim. In particular, the rimcorresponds to the free edge of a side wall 5 of the container 1, whichedge is remote from the bottom 2 of the container, which bottom is oftenformed integrally with the side wall 5. The lid 3 has an opening zone 11and a push ring 7 suitable for pivoting about a pin 9 secured of the lid3 and suitable for being actuated to pop out the opening zone 11.

In this embodiment, the can is thus entirely identical to anyconventional can, except that its lid 3 includes an orifice 17 (clearlyvisible in FIG. 8) that goes right through the lid 3 and thus passesright through the thickness of the lid 3. Specifically, compared with aconventional can, merely by adding this orifice 17, it becomes possibleto incorporate a straw 100 and an extractor device 30 for extracting thestraw in compliance with the teaching of the present description. Inthis embodiment, the orifice 17 is of circular section, so as to be easyto make, e.g. merely by piercing the lid 3.

In this embodiment (see in FIG. 3), the device 30 for extracting thestraw 100 from the container 1 comprises a stopper 37 suitable for beingattached to and detached from the lid 3 in order to close and open theorifice 17; and a body 31 connected to the stopper 37 and suitable forpassing through the orifice 17 in order to be housed inside thecontainer 1 for the purpose of co-operating with the straw 100, whichstraw is also suitable for passing through the orifice 17 in order to behoused inside the container 1.

Thus, when the container 1 has never been opened by a consumer, thestopper 37 is attached to the lid 3, the body 31 and the straw 100 bothextending inside the container 1, being dipped at least in part in theliquid L contained in the container 1, and co-operating with each other.More particularly, the body 31 has an abutment 35 on which a corrugatedportion 105 of the straw 100 is suitable for resting when the stopper 37is attached to the lid 3.

In this embodiment, the body 31 has a tube portion suitable forreceiving a fraction of the straw 100 (specifically the fraction of thestraw including its corrugated portion 105 and its first end 103 that isto be taken to the consumer's mouth) while the stopper 37 is attached tothe lid 3. In particular, the tube portion presents a constriction inits inside diameter, thereby defining the abutment 35. Moreparticularly, the tube portion presents a bore within which thisfraction of the straw 100 can be received, and a shoulder having theeffect of locally reducing the inside diameter of the bore and ofdefining the abutment 35 on which the corrugated portion 105 rests. Inthis example, the abutment 35 restricts movements of the straw 100 bothradially and axially relative to the abutment 35, such that the straw100 is not free to move in any manner inside the container 1 wheneverthe container is moved. The abutment 35 in this embodiment thus acts asa kind of splint for the straw 100, serving as a guide for the strawwhile the stopper 37 is attached to the lid 3.

In this embodiment, the shoulder is rounded (as can be seen clearly inone of the two detailed enlargements shown in FIG. 3), so as tofacilitate passing the straw 100 through it and so as to avoid havingany sharp edge coming into contact with the corrugated portion 105.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the inside diameter of the tube portionis designed to leave a small amount of clearance relative to thediameter of the straw 100 (e.g. clearance less than the diameter of thestraw), so as to constrain the straw to maintain a configuration thatcan be said to be “straight” (as compared with a configuration that canbe said to be “curved”), in which the corrugated portion 105 iscompressed so that the two ends 101 and 103 of the straw 100 are inalignment with each other.

In this example, the stopper 37 has a working portion presenting an axisof symmetry of revolution, which axis coincides in particular with theaxis defined by the tube portion of the body 31. More particularly, thisworking portion of the stopper 37 is frustoconical in shape (whichconstitutes a particular example of a flared portion), becoming largeron going away from the body 31 (axially away in this embodiment), orbecoming narrower on going towards the lid 3 when the stopper 37 isattached to the lid. In addition, in order to further improve theclamping force between the stopper 37 and the lid 3, the stopper 37 isprovided by way of example with a groove 39 (which is a particularexample of a notch) suitable for co-operating with the edge of theorifice 17 when the stopper 37 is attached to the lid 3. In thisembodiment, the tube portion of the body 31 is arranged to extend thestopper 37 axially.

In this embodiment (see in particular FIGS. 3 and 6), the body 31includes at least one opening 34 through which the straw 100 can bedisengaged from the device 30 when the stopper 37 is detached from thelid 3, as described below. In particular, in this embodiment, the tubeportion presents a side wall in which this opening 34 is formed.

In this embodiment (see in particular FIG. 3), the body 31 has aresilient portion 33 suitable for contracting elastically duringinsertion of the body 31 into the container 1 through the orifice 17 andof expanding again elastically to its initial shape after beinginserted. In particular, this resilient portion 33 projects from thetube portion. Still more particularly, this resilient portion 33 isdefined by a resilient collar that flares towards the lid 3, when thestopper 37 is attached thereto.

In this embodiment, the device 30 has a seal portion 60, which isattached to the stopper 37 on the outside of the lid 3, and which issuitable for being separated from the stopper 37 in order to enable saidstopper 37 to be detached. More particularly, the seal portion 60 andthe stopper 37 are attached to each other by means of breakable bridges(clearly visible in dashed lines in FIG. 2), so as to provide anon-permanent connection between the seal portion 60 and the stopper 37that can easily be broken in order to separate them from each other.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the seal portion 60 has a tongue thatcan be handled from the outside of the lid 3 so as to make it easier toseparate the seal portion 60 from the stopper 37. Similarly, in thisembodiment, the stopper 37 also has a tongue 43 that can be handled fromthe outside of the lid 3 so as to make it easier to detach the stopper37 from the lid 3. These two tongues are clearly visible in dashed linesin FIG. 2, and also in FIG. 5, as described below.

In this embodiment, the device 30 is made integrally as a single piece.Thus, the body 31 is made integrally as a single piece together with thestopper 37. In particular, in this embodiment, the stopper 37 and thebody 31 are made by molding, in particular by injection molding. Theseal portion 60 is made by being overmolded onto the stopper 37, inparticular so as to enable it to be made out of a material that is morerigid than the material of the stopper 37 and of the body 31.Nevertheless, provision could be made to use any other method offabricating the extraction device without going beyond the ambit of thepresent description, and in particular any other method of workingthermoformable materials or any other method of working the othermaterial under consideration, or each of them.

Furthermore, the stopper 37 and the body 31 may be made of inert rubberymaterial (e.g. a material of the type used for making stoppers forlaboratory test tubes), or any other material having analogousphysiochemical characteristics. By way of non-limiting example, it isthus possible to envisage using synthetic or natural rubber (which isvery elastic, thereby guaranteeing good sealing and adhesion for thestopper 37, which presents good ability to withstand the chemical agentscommonly used in a laboratory, and which can withstand temperatures atleast over the range −25° C. to +70° C. (+120° in a wet atmosphere));silicone (which in addition to the above-mentioned characteristicsprovides a greater temperature range (capable of withstandingtemperatures at least over the range −70° C. to +200° C.)); cellulose;polyethylene; etc. . . . .

In this embodiment, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the device issuitable for being received at least in part on the outside of the lid 3under the push ring 7 in its initial “ex-factory” position, before theconsumer takes hold of the container 1 in order to extract the straw100.

Such a process of extracting the straw 100 comprises a first step, asshown in FIG. 4, during which the push ring 7 is pivoted about the pin 9in order to give the consumer access to the seal portion 60 of thedevice 30. In this implementation, the location of the orifice 17 andthe shape of the seal portion 60 are such that it is necessary to turnthrough about one-fourth of a turn in order to access the seal portion60. Nevertheless, without going beyond the ambit of the presentdescription, it would be possible to use any other configuration, inwhich the turn angle is less than or greater than one-fourth of a turn,or indeed in which such an angle is unnecessary (thus indicating thatthis first step is optional). For example, the presence of the push ring7 and of the opening zone 11 as conventionally provided is optional inorder to be able to extract the straw in the present implementation. Thepush ring 7 and the opening zone 11 could then be omitted whenfabricating the container, without going beyond the ambit of the presentdescription. In this implementation, they are present solely because ofthe desire to modify as little as possible the method of fabricationthat is conventionally implemented and that has withstood the test oftime for many years, so as to minimize the impact of incorporating thestraw and its extraction device on the cost of fabricating thecontainer.

After this first step of the extraction process, a second step isperformed in the present implementation, as shown in FIG. 5, duringwhich the seal portion 60 is separated from the stopper 37. To do this,in this implementation, the consumer can pull on the tongue of the sealportion 60 so as to break the breakable bridges connecting the sealportion 60 in non-permanent manner to the stopper 37. The consumer canthen have direct access to a projecting portion 41 of the stopper 37 onthe outside of the lid 3, which portion is extended by the tongue 43 ofthe stopper 37. It is recalled at this point that incorporating a sealportion 60 is optional, such as this second step is likewise optional.

After this second step of the extraction process, a third step isperformed in the present implementation, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7,during which the stopper 37 is detached from the lid 3 so as to enablethe body 31 of the device 30 and the straw 100 to be extracted. Inparticular, the abutment 35 of the body 31 is suitable for entrainingthe corrugated portion 105 of the straw 100 while the stopper 37 isbeing detached, so as to extract the straw 100 from the container 1through the orifice 17. Thereafter, the straw 100 is separated from thestopper 37 through the opening 34.

In this embodiment, the stopper 37 and the body 31 are made of inertrubbery material or of any other material having analogousphysiochemical characteristics. In this embodiment, the tube portionpresents a predetermined zone at the opening 34 that is suitable forflexing so as to make it easy for the consumer to separate from thedevice 30 the end 103 of the straw 100 that is to come into contact withthe user's mouth. During this separation, or subsequently, the straw 100may be curved by bending its corrugated portion 105, as shown in FIGS. 6and 7.

In this embodiment, when the stopper 37 is detached, the resilientportion 33 of the body 31 is deployed and configured to opposeseparation of the body 31 from the container 1 by an abutment effect, asshown in FIG. 7.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, once the consumer has finished drinkingwith the straw but the container 1 still contains beverage, the consumercan reclose the orifice 17 by performing the steps of theabove-described extraction method in the reverse order. In particular,the consumer can begin by recompressing the corrugated portion 105 ofthe straw 100 so that it returns to its “straight” configuration;thereafter the end 103 of the straw can be put back into the body 31 ofthe device through the opening 34; the body 31 together with the strawcan then be put back into the inside of the container 1 by passing themthrough the orifice 17; and finally the orifice 17 can be reclosed withthe stopper 37. In this embodiment, the consumer can subsequentlydistinguish this container that has already been opened at least oncefrom a new container, because the already-opened container no longer hasthe seal portion 60, unlike the new container.

Furthermore, in order to fabricate a container 1 in accordance with thepresent embodiment integrating a straw 100 and its extractor device 30,it is possible to start from a conventional fabrication method includinga step of fabricating the lid 3 in a manner that is conventional, exceptinsofar as the method includes piercing the lid 3 in order to make theorifice 17; followed by a step of incorporated the straw 100 and thedevice 30 with the lid 3 (which straw and device may both be fabricatedseparately, independently of fabricating the container), during whichstep the body 31 and the straw 100 are passed through the orifice 17,and the stopper 37 is subsequently attached to the lid in order to closethe orifice 17; and finally a step of crimping the lid 3 to a rim of thecontainer 1 in order to close said rim. Nevertheless, without goingbeyond the ambit of the present description, it is possible to performthe above-mentioned incorporation and crimping steps in the oppositeorder, should it be more appropriate to integrate the straw 100 and theextraction device 30 with the container 1 only after the lid 3 hasalready been crimped.

The embodiments and implementations described in the present descriptionare given purely by way of non-limiting illustration, and in the lightof this description, a person skilled in the art can easily modify theseembodiments or implementations, or can envisage others, while remainingwithin the scope of the invention.

Furthermore, the various characteristics of these embodiments orimplementations can be used singly or in combination with one another.When they are combined, these characteristics may be combined asdescribed above, or in other ways, the invention not being limited tothe specific combinations described in the present description. Inparticular, unless specified to the contrary, any characteristicdescribed with reference to any one embodiment or implementation of theinvention may be applied in analogous manner to any other embodiment orimplementation.

1. A device for extracting a straw from a container having a rim that isclosed by a lid crimped to said rim and presenting an orifice, whereinsaid device comprises: a stopper suitable for being attached to anddetached from the lid in order to close and open the orifice, and a bodyconnected to the stopper and suitable for passing through the orifice inorder to be housed inside the container, and including: an abutment onwhich a corrugated portion of the straw is suitable for resting when thestopper is attached to the lid, and which is suitable for entrainingsaid corrugated portion while the stopper is being detached in order toextract the straw from the container through the orifice; and at leastone opening through which the straw can be disengaged from the devicewhen the stopper is detached from the lid.
 2. A device according toclaim 1, wherein the stopper and at least a portion of the body areformed as a single piece.
 3. A device according to claim 1, wherein thebody is formed integrally as a single piece.
 4. A device according toclaim 1, wherein the body has a tube portion inside which at least afraction of the straw is suitable for being received when the stopper isattached to the lid.
 5. A device according to claim 4, wherein the tubeportion presents a constriction of its inside diameter, thereby definingthe abutment.
 6. A device according to claim 4, wherein the tube portionpresents a side wall in which said at least one opening is formed.
 7. Adevice according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the stopperpresents an axis of symmetry of revolution.
 8. A device according toclaim 4, wherein at least a portion of the stopper presents an axis ofsymmetry of revolution and wherein the axis of the tube portioncoincides with the axis of symmetry of revolution of said at least oneportion of the stopper
 9. A device according to claim 1, wherein thebody includes a resilient portion suitable for contracting elasticallywhile the body is being inserted into the container through the orifice,and for expanding again elastically after said insertion in order toprovide an abutment effect that opposes separation of the body and ofthe container when the stopper is detached.
 10. A device according toclaim 1, including a seal portion that is attached to the stopper on theoutside of the lid, and that is suitable for being separated from thestopper in order to enable said stopper to be detached.
 11. A deviceaccording to claim 1, wherein the stopper has a flared portion thatbecomes larger on going away from the body.
 12. A device according toclaim 1, wherein the stopper includes a notch suitable for co-operatingwith the edge of the orifice when the stopper is attached to the
 13. Adevice according to claim 1, wherein the lid includes a push ring forpunching out an opening zone provided in said lid, and the device issuitable for being received at least in part on the outside of the lidunder the push ring.
 14. A container including a rim closed by a lidcrimped onto said rim and presenting an orifice; a straw housed insidethe container; and a device according to claim 1, configured to extractsaid straw from the container through said orifice.
 15. A method offabricating a container, wherein the method comprises: a fabricationstep for fabricating the lid, during which an orifice is pierced in thelid, an incorporation step for incorporated a straw and a deviceaccording to claim 1 with the lid, during which step the body and thestraw are passed through the orifice, and the stopper is subsequentlyattached to the lid in order to close the orifice, and a crimping stepfor crimping the lid on a rim of the container in order to close saidrim, which step may be performed before or after the incorporation step.